Google I/O keynote day is the moment you've been waiting for all year. Every year, Google releases a rapid-fire series of developer conferences, including many announcements about what it's been working on recently. brian We have already started by sharing what we expect.
We understand that you won't necessarily have time to watch all of today's two-hour presentation. That's why we'll bring you a quick summary of the biggest news from the keynote as soon as it's announced. Easy-to-read digest list. Let's go!
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A man checks TIKTOK ratings on Google Play on May 20, 2020 in New Delhi, India. The video glorifying acid attacks prompted calls for it to be banned, and its rating dropped to 2.0 stars. (Photo credit: Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Image credit: Nasir Kachroo / NurPhoto / Getty Images
Google Play is in the spotlight with new discovery features for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer tools like the Google Play SDK console and Play Integrity API .
Of particular interest to developers is something called the Engage SDK, which introduces a way for app makers to introduce content to users in full-screen, immersive experiences that are personalized to each individual user. However, Google says this is not a surface that users can see at this time.read more
Detect fraud during calls
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On Tuesday, Google previewed a feature that appears to alert users to potential scams during calls.
The feature will be built into future versions of Android and leverages Gemini Nano, the smallest version of Google's Generative AI product, which can run entirely on-device. The system effectively listens in real time for “conversation patterns commonly associated with fraud.”
Google cites an example of someone posing as a “bank representative.” Common scammer tactics such as password requests and gift cards also trigger the system. Although it is well understood that these are all ways to get money out of you, there are still many people in the world who are vulnerable to this type of scam. Once launched, a notification will pop up stating that the user may fall prey to unpleasant characters.read more
ask for photos
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Google Photos is bringing AI to life with the release of Ask Photos, an experimental feature that leverages Google's Gemini AI model. Launching later this summer, the new feature will allow users to search their entire Google Photos collection using natural language queries that leverage AI's understanding of a photo's content and other metadata.
Previously, users could search for specific people, places, or things in photos thanks to natural language processing, but with AI upgrades, finding the right content is now more intuitive, making manual search easier. Less search process.
The examples were also cute. Who doesn't love the band duo of a stuffed tiger and a golden retriever called “Golden Stripes”?read more
All about Gemini
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Gemini 1.5 Pro: Another upgrade to generative AI is that Gemini can now analyze longer documents, codebases, videos, and audio recordings than before.
A private preview of the new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro, the company's current flagship model, revealed that it can capture up to 2 million tokens. This is double the previous high. At this level, the new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro supports the largest inputs of any model on the market.read more
Gemini Live: The company previewed a new experience for Gemini called Gemini Live. This allows users to have “in-depth” voice chats with Gemini on their smartphones. Users can interrupt Gemini while the chatbot is speaking and ask clarifying questions, and the chatbot adapts to the user's speech patterns in real time. Gemini can also see and react to your surroundings through photos and videos taken with your smartphone's camera.
At first glance, Live doesn't seem like a significant upgrade over existing technology. But Google is leveraging new technologies in the field of generative AI to deliver better, less error-prone image analysis, and combining these technologies with an enhanced speech engine to deliver more consistent, expressive, and expressive images. It claims to realize realistic multi-turn dialogue.read more
Gemini Nano: Well, just a little announcement. Starting with Chrome 126, Google is also building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client. The company says this will allow developers to use an on-device model to power their own AI capabilities. Google itself plans to use this new feature to enhance features such as the existing “Write Help” tool in Gmail's Workspace Lab, for example.read more
Gemini on Android: Google's Gemini on Android is an AI replacement for Google Assistant that will soon benefit from deep integration with Android's mobile operating system and Google apps. Users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into her Gmail, Google Messages, and other apps. Meanwhile, YouTube users can tap “Ask This Video” to find specific information within her YouTube videos, Google said.read more
Gemini on Google Maps: Starting with the Places API, Gemini models are being added to the Google Maps platform for developers. A developer can display the generated AI overview of a location or area in his own app or on his website. This overview is based on Gemini's analysis of insights from Google Maps' community of over 300 million contributors. What would be better? Developers no longer need to write their own custom descriptions for locations.read more
Improved performance of Tensor processing units
Google has announced its next generation (sixth to be exact) Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips. The product, called Trillium, is expected to be available later this year. If you recall, it's something of a tradition for I/O to announce next-generation TPUs, even though the chips aren't launching until later this year.
These new TPUs deliver 4.7x more compute performance per chip compared to 5th generation. But perhaps more importantly, Trillium now features the third generation of his SparseCore. Google describes it as a “specialized accelerator for handling extremely large embeddings common in advanced ranking and recommendation workloads.”read more
AI in search
Google is adding more AI to search, allaying doubts that the company is losing market share to competitors like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The company is also rolling out AI-powered summaries to users in the U.S. The company is also considering using Gemini as an agent for things like travel planning.read more
Google plans to use generative AI to organize the entire search results page for some search results. This is in addition to the existing AI Overview feature, which creates short snippets with aggregated information about the topic you were searching for. The AI Overview feature will be made publicly available on Tuesday following work in Google's AI Labs program.read more
Generation AI upgrade
Google has announced Imagen 3, the latest addition to the tech giant's Imagen generated AI model family.
Demis Hassabis, head of Google's AI research division DeepMind, said Imagen 3 is better able to understand text prompts and convert them into images than its predecessor, Imagen 2, and is better than its contemporaries. It said it was more “creative and detailed.” Additionally, the model is said to have fewer “distracting artifacts” and fewer errors.
“this is [also] This is the best model to date at rendering text, which has been a challenge for image generation models. ” Hassabis added.read more
Gemma 2 updates
Google's next generation Gemma model, Gemma 2, will launch in June with a 27 billion parameter model.read more
Project IDX
Project IDX, the company's next-generation AI-centric browser-based development environment, is currently in open beta. This update integrates Google Maps Platform into the IDE, adds geolocation capabilities to your apps, and integrates with Chrome Dev Tools and Lighthouse for application debugging. Google will soon also allow you to deploy apps to Cloud Run, Google Cloud's serverless platform for running front-end and back-end services.read more
veo
Google is eyeing OpenAI's Sora with Veo. The AI model can create 1080p video clips approximately one minute long when given a text prompt. Veo lets you capture a variety of visual and cinematic styles, including landscapes and time-lapse shots, and make edits and adjustments to the footage you've already produced.
It also builds on Google's preliminary commercial work in video generation, previewed in April, which leverages the company's Imagen 2 family of image generation models to create looping video clips.read more
Search by circle
The AI-powered Circle to Search feature, which allows Android users to use gestures like swivel to instantly get answers, will help them solve more complex problems across psychology and math word problems. We're designed to help you navigate Google Search more naturally from anywhere on your phone with actions like circling, highlighting, scribbling, and tapping. Oh, and help your child with homework right from your supported Android smartphone or tablet.read more
Firebase Genkit
The Firebase platform has a new feature called Firebase Genkit that aims to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with support for Go coming soon. . It is an open source framework using the Apache 2.0 license that allows developers to quickly incorporate his AI into new and existing applications.
The Genkit use cases the company highlighted on Tuesday include many of the standard GenAI use cases, such as content generation and summarization, text translation, and image generation.read more
pixel 8a
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Google can't wait until I/O to show off the latest addition to its Pixel line, announcing the new Pixel 8a last week. The device starts at $499 and ships on Tuesday. The updates are also what we would expect from these updates. At the top of the list is the addition of the Tensor G3 chip.read more
pixel slate
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Google's Pixel tablet called Slate is now available. If you recall, Brian reviewed his Pixel Tablet around this time last year, and all he talked about was the base. Interestingly, the tablet can be used without it.read more
This article will be updated throughout the day…
